Music Exam 3 composers

Question 1

Beethoven

Answer 1

Considered to be “transitional” between the Classical and Romantic Eras

Question 2

Beethoven

Answer 2

Struggled to write and perfect his music

Question 3

Beethoven

Answer 3

music features triumph through the struggle

Question 4

Beethoven

Answer 4

went deaf in his 20s/30s

Question 5

Beethoven

Answer 5

had a troubled childhood; father was alcoholic and abusive

Question 6

Beethoven

Answer 6

three periods of his music: assimilating, heroic, transcendental

Question 7

Bizet

Answer 7

wrote the opera “Carmen” in 1875

Question 8

Cage

Answer 8

4’33” (of silence)

Question 9

Cage

Answer 9

predicted the significance of electronic instruments

Question 10

Cage

Answer 10

made concept of chance music, in which some processes are determined and other left indeterminate

Question 11

Cage

Answer 11

open to all sound as musical material, altered traditional instruments, incorporated chance in his music

Question 12

Franck

Answer 12

late to develop, slow worker, often ridiculed as a composer

Question 13

Franck

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works were Romantically lyrical and expressive, but maintained a Classical detachment

Question 14

Haydn

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played for Austrian prince Nicholas

Question 15

Haydn

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wrote the opera “World of the Moon” in 1777

Question 16

Haydn

Answer 16

original, sophisticated music with hard-to-hear qualities

Question 17

Monteverdi

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composed the first opera (Orfeo) in 1607

Question 18

Monteverdi

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united the music of the Renaissance and Baroque

Question 19

Monteverdi

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transformed the old style of music (prima prattica, in which the music ruled the text) toward the new music (seconda pattica, in which the text ruled the music)

Question 20

Monteverdi

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invented the string tremolo, in which the bow rapidly repeats the same note

Question 21

Monteverdi

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first composer to realize the full power of homophonic music

Question 22

Mozart

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operas include Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute, and The Marriage of Figaro

Question 23

Mozart

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followed traditions and norms of the Classical Era

Question 24

Mozart

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veiled emotions, but every part of each song was valued

Question 25

Puccini

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heir of “verismo” (Naturalism)

Question 26

Puccini

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wrote Madame Butterfly

Question 27

Wagner

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controversial, influential composer; had “cult-like” status

Question 28

Wagner

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Nazis used his music as propaganda

Question 29

Wagner

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King Ludwig 2 of Bulgaria supported him irrationally

Question 30

Wagner

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music of excess and exaggeration

Question 31

Wagner

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first to use motives in operas to stand for a person, place, thing or idea (Leitmotive)

Question 32

Wagner

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all elements were equal and powerful in his “music dramas”

Question 33

Wagner

Answer 33

operas were performed in Festpielhaus (festival playhouse)